Using Bento Boxes for lunches.
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Love this thread!! ^_^0
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Nearly the same as yesterday but slightly prettier and re-portioned things to make it a bit lighter overall.
@LilSweet2015 The bean curd was from my local Asian mart, although it should be pretty simple to make. Here's the recipe for the Korean Beef, it's really quick to make!
Korean Beef- Extra lean ground beef (500g)
- Minced garlic cloves (6)
- Freshly grated ginger (1 tbsp.)
- Sesame oil (1 tbsp.)
- 1/4 c. soy sauce
- 1/4 c. brown sugar (Next time I'm changing it to 1/8 c.)
- 1-2 tsp chili flakes
- 1 c. diced green onions (1/2 to for cooking, 1/2 for garnish)
- Mix soy sauce, sugar & chili flakes
- Sautee beef with sesame oil, garlic & ginger
- Add sauce & green onions and continue to cook until reduced
- (Note: Because of the soy sauce I didn't need to add any extra salt)
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Here's today's bento. Rice w/ furikake and shrimp sauteed in sesame oil, sugar snap peas, a baybel cheese and almonds. Heavy on the cals today @ 501.
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a good tamagoyaki recipe? I've made it once, and it had a surprisingly high amount of sugar in it with the recipe I used. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm watching my calories right now, so I can't eat something like that too often.0
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Narcissora wrote: »Does anyone have a recommendation for a good tamagoyaki recipe? I've made it once, and it had a surprisingly high amount of sugar in it with the recipe I used. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm watching my calories right now, so I can't eat something like that too often.
Reduce the amount of sugar and make it more savory item? That's what I do. Or you can use sweetener substitute like stevia...
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Swiftlet66 wrote: »Narcissora wrote: »Does anyone have a recommendation for a good tamagoyaki recipe? I've made it once, and it had a surprisingly high amount of sugar in it with the recipe I used. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm watching my calories right now, so I can't eat something like that too often.
Reduce the amount of sugar and make it more savory item? That's what I do. Or you can use sweetener substitute like stevia...
You can omit the sugar in any Tamagoyaki recipe. The slightly bitter tasted that stevia has wouldn't complement the tamagoyaki very much.
You'll find that the Japanese like sweeter meat flavours than most Westerner's. I'm not a fan of the sweet egg flavour either (plus there's the caloric issue as well). I use this recipe, but just omit the sugar used. If I'm really hard on my cals for the day, I'll also not add the mirin, but make up the volume with extra water or half water/half soy.0 -
munkeyfunk wrote: »Hnnnnghhh
Was that your manly squee in response to how awesome our lunches are? If so, squee away. XD0 -
pronetocrash91 wrote: »I may need to invest in some Bento boxes after looking through this post! Everything looks so cute and delicious! Thanks for all the ideas.
@pronetocrash91 as everyone else said, feel free to join us with just some gladware / tupperware. Collecting the cutsie boxes is addictive, so it's always good to start slow
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mangrothian wrote: »munkeyfunk wrote: »Hnnnnghhh
Was that your manly squee in response to how awesome our lunches are? If so, squee away. XD
HAHAHA! That totally made my day
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Thanks for the tamagoyaki advice! And @mangrothian you crack me up!
This bento ended up under 400 calories, which kind of surprises me: white rice with peas and asparagus, coconut curry chicken from Trader Joe's (it's my new favorite item from TJ's aside from the green tea mochi), carrots, plum.
I forgot to include cherries!!! Uggggghhhhhh0 -
Narcissora wrote: »Thanks for the tamagoyaki advice! And @mangrothian you crack me up!
This bento ended up under 400 calories, which kind of surprises me: white rice with peas and asparagus, coconut curry chicken from Trader Joe's (it's my new favorite item from TJ's aside from the green tea mochi), carrots, plum.
I forgot to include cherries!!! Uggggghhhhhh
Oh no! Not the cherries!
No box for me today as we have the work picnic I've been planning forever. At least those bags and bags of marshmallows with be exiting the office
Happy Friday!0 -
No box for hubby today. I am protesting his working but he will be coming home on lunch, so I guess I will throw something together for him >.< Thinking chili, cheese, and fritos. I am a lazy wife, well that and he does not care for the cute things I make, nor do the kids, soooooo depressing!
Now I want cherries too for some odd reason. Also, Trader Joes, need to make another trip, with a cooler. Coconut Chicken Curry is on the list. So much I wanna try.mangrothian wrote: »munkeyfunk wrote: »Hnnnnghhh
Was that your manly squee in response to how awesome our lunches are? If so, squee away. XD
That is just great!!!!
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I'm on "staycation" today (vacation where you stay at home because you need to use up vacation days but are too broke to go anywhere, lol), heading to the pool for lap swim before hubby and kid get home so I packed a Bento supper for the boys to make it easy for hubby to get supper on the table. What I ate for lunch was a modified version of my son's (the one pictured with the owl pick) with salmon, fiddleheads (and a bit of butter), and 1/4 cup Annie's pasta. It clocks in at under 500 calories. Would be good for a workday lunch too I imagine!
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I'm on "staycation" today (vacation where you stay at home because you need to use up vacation days but are too broke to go anywhere, lol), heading to the pool for lap swim before hubby and kid get home so I packed a Bento supper for the boys to make it easy for hubby to get supper on the table. What I ate for lunch was a modified version of my son's (the one pictured with the owl pick) with salmon, fiddleheads (and a bit of butter), and 1/4 cup Annie's pasta. It clocks in at under 500 calories. Would be good for a workday lunch too I imagine!
Epic first post! Your lunch/dinner looks awesome
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@LadyAhiru if you don't mind me asking, what did you cook your veggies in? The sauce looks tasty!0
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Routine routine! I love knowing I'm getting back into my routine this week!
Monday's bento is chicken marinated in soy and yuzu pepper paste, rice (only seasoned with salt), umeboshi and vegetables. You can't see them in the picture, but I cooked purple carrots with my veg. The undersides of some of the veg went bright violet >.<
Total cals: 575 There's a higher amount of rice and meat then I normally have, which upped the Cals.
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Forgot to take a pic today
but today's lunch was tonkatsu, rice, mixed veggies and strawberries, yummy! 0 -
I am SO on top of it today! Since today is a holiday for us folks in the U.S., I prepared tomorrow's bento lunch way in advance
Leftover pad kee mao with chicken, plum, strawberries, mozzarella. Now I just have to keep myself from eating it today...0 -
Narcissora wrote: »I am SO on top of it today! Since today is a holiday for us folks in the U.S., I prepared tomorrow's bento lunch way in advance
Leftover pad kee mao with chicken, plum, strawberries, mozzarella. Now I just have to keep myself from eating it today...
Yummers. I'd have trouble stopping myself to methinks.0 -
Built up some of my bento freezer stash today! Here are my bento (on the right) and DH's bento (on the left). We both have a salad, his with salad dressing and a peanut butter cup, mine with gorgonzola cheese. My main tier is rice, sesame seeds, shrimp and edamame. His is rice, sesame seeds, chicken with kung pao sauce, and broccoli. There is soy sauce in the pot. I also made my week of hard boiled eggs. My star came out a bit wonky, and my bear has no ears, but i think they came out pretty good!
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SpecialKitty7 wrote: »
Because that picture's not a blatant advert for Makiko Itoh at all ^_^
I had a sort-of half bento today. I used a smaller multitier box for my brekky, and made some hello kitty pasta for lunch. I had some salad stuff in the fridge at work, so the rest of my lunch was rocket, spinach, boccocini, smoked salmon and tomatoes.
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mangrothian wrote: »
What's funny is I didn't want to clean off my counter for the picture, so I put it on top of the book! I didn't even think about it until later
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I couldn't eat it all! I still have half of the coleslaw and a tomato. I think this box is too big (even when I stuff it with mainly veggies). Who worried that bentos don't hold very much? That they would leave ya hungry? Oh yes, me 0
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I think everyone worries about that, and it probably is an issue at first, simply because it takes practice to figure out how to pack the boxes properly. My first few bento boxes were super tiny. I went hungry at lunch for a few weeks until my packing skills leveled up ☺I couldn't eat it all! I still have half of the coleslaw and a tomato. I think this box is too big (even when I stuff it with mainly veggies). Who worried that bentos don't hold very much? That they would leave ya hungry? Oh yes, me
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mangrothian wrote: »
I think everyone worries about that, and it probably is an issue at first, simply because it takes practice to figure out how to pack the boxes properly. My first few bento boxes were super tiny. I went hungry at lunch for a few weeks until my packing skills leveled up ☺I couldn't eat it all! I still have half of the coleslaw and a tomato. I think this box is too big (even when I stuff it with mainly veggies). Who worried that bentos don't hold very much? That they would leave ya hungry? Oh yes, me
Either that or you start to shrink your stomach
Today's lunch is yakitori, rice, lettuce, tomato and avocado. There is also a sad looking bit of tamagoyaki under the chicken
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I love my bento style lunchbox. Mine is from Laptop Lunches. I don't use it as much as I used to because I generally just take a huge container of salad for lunch every day. I would generally fill the larger size one with leftovers or a hummus or black bean wrap, then the smaller ones with fruit, veggies, olives, etc.
If I worked outside of the home I would absolutely love one of the laptop lunches boxes.0 -
Thank you to the thread starter and everyone who shares their lovely bentos. Gives me ideas for my own lunches. I am using laptoplunch bentos and I instagram my simple lunches for own reference (https://instagram.com/minah_stapler/)
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@linstapler thanks for sharing! Your pictures and your kitty look awesome
Here's tomorrow's bento. DH's on top, he has pb and banana sandwich, carrots, ranch dressing, fritos, a cheddar cheese block (you can't see it) and some non-pareils. Mine is my one of my usuals, dumplings, almonds, edamame and broccoli.
Since I don't have to weigh his stuff or even care about calories, his are so much faster to make.
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